1999 Canarian regional election

1999 Canarian regional election
13 June 1999
All 60 seats in the Parliament of the Canary Islands
31 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Registered1,373,641 Increase 10.0%
Turnout835,181 (60.8%)
Decrease 3.4 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Román Rodríguez Jerónimo Saavedra José Miguel Bravo de Laguna
Party CC PSOE PP
Leader since 1999 27 June 1998 1991
Leader's seat Gran Canaria Gran Canaria Gran Canaria
Last election 21 seats, 32.8% 16 seats, 23.1% 18 seats, 31.1%
Seats won 24 19 15
Seat change Increase 3 Increase 3 Decrease 3
Popular vote 306,658 199,503 225,316
Percentage 36.9% 24.0% 27.1%
Swing Increase 4.1 pp Increase 0.9 pp Decrease 4.0 pp
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
Leader Belén Allende Juan Manuel García Ramos
Party AHI FNC
Leader since 1999 1999
Leader's seat El Hierro Tenerife (lost)
Last election 1 seat, 0.3% 4 seats, 3.0%[a]
Seats won 2 0
Seat change Increase 1 Decrease 4
Popular vote 2,773 39,947
Percentage 0.3% 4.8%
Swing Steady 0.0 pp Increase 1.8 pp
Constituency results map for the Parliament of the Canary Islands
President before election

Manuel Hermoso
AIC (CC)

 President after election

Román Rodríguez
ICAN (CC)

A regional election was held in the Canary Islands on 13 June 1999 to elect the 5th Parliament of the autonomous community. All 60 seats in the Parliament were up for election. It was held concurrently with regional elections in twelve other autonomous communities and local elections all across Spain, as well as the 1999 European Parliament election.

Overview

Under the 1982 Statute of Autonomy, the Parliament of the Canary Islands was the unicameral legislature of the homonymous autonomous community, having legislative power in devolved matters, as well as the ability to grant or withdraw confidence from a regional president.[1] The electoral and procedural rules were supplemented by national law provisions.[2]

Date

The term of the Parliament of the Canary Islands expired four years after the date of its previous ordinary election, with election day being fixed for the fourth Sunday of May every four years, but a 1998 amendment allowed for regional elections held in May 1995 to be held concurrently with European Parliament elections, provided that they were scheduled for within a four month-timespan. The election decree was required to be issued no later than 54 days before the scheduled election date and published on the following day in the Official Gazette of the Canaries (BOC).[3] The previous election was held on 28 May 1995, setting the date for election day concurrently with that year's European Parliament election on 13 June 1999.

The Parliament of the Canary Islands could not be dissolved before the expiration date of parliament, except in the event of an investiture process failing to elect a regional president within a two-month period from the first ballot. In such a case, the Parliament was to be automatically dissolved and a snap election called, with elected lawmakers serving the remainder of its original four-year term.[4]

The election to the Parliament of the Canary Islands was officially called on 20 April 1999 with the publication of the corresponding decree in the BOC, setting election day for 13 June.[5]

Electoral system

Voting for the Parliament was based on universal suffrage, comprising all Spanish nationals over 18 years of age, registered in the Canary Islands and with full political rights, provided that they had not been deprived of the right to vote by a final sentence, nor were legally incapacitated.[6]

The Parliament of the Canary Islands had a minimum of 50 and a maximum of 70 seats, with electoral provisions fixing its size at 60. All were elected in seven multi-member constituencies—corresponding to the islands of El Hierro, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, La Gomera, La Palma, Lanzarote and Tenerife, each of which was assigned a fixed number of seats—using the D'Hondt method and closed-list proportional voting, with a 30 percent-threshold of valid votes (including blank ballots) in each constituency or six percent regionally.[7]

As a result of the aforementioned allocation, each Parliament constituency was entitled the following seats:[8]

Seats Constituencies
15 Gran Canaria, Tenerife
8 La Palma, Lanzarote
7 Fuerteventura
4 La Gomera
3 El Hierro

The law did not provide for by-elections to fill vacant seats; instead, any vacancies arising after the proclamation of candidates and during the legislative term were filled by the next candidates on the party lists or, when required, by designated substitutes.[9]

Outgoing parliament

The table below shows the composition of the parliamentary groups in the chamber at the time of the election call.[10][11]

Parliamentary composition in April 1999
Groups Parties Legislators
Seats Total
Canarian Coalition Parliamentary Group (CC) AIC 12 18
CCN 4
ICAN 1
AM 1
People's Parliamentary Group PP 18 18
Canarian Socialist Parliamentary Group PSOE 16 16
Mixed Parliamentary Group PIL 3 8
IF 1
AHI 1
PNC 1
INDEP 2[b]

Parties and candidates

The electoral law allowed for parties and federations registered in the interior ministry, alliances and groupings of electors to present lists of candidates. Parties and federations intending to form an alliance were required to inform the relevant electoral commission within 10 days of the election call, whereas groupings of electors needed to secure the signature of at least one percent of the electorate in the constituencies for which they sought election, disallowing electors from signing for more than one list.[12]

Below is a list of the main parties and alliances which contested the election:

Candidacy Parties and
alliances		 Candidate Ideology Previous result Gov. Ref.
Vote % Seats
CC
List
 Román Rodríguez Regionalism
Canarian nationalism
Centrism		 32.8% 21 Yes [13]
PP
List
 José Miguel Bravo de Laguna Conservatism
Christian democracy		 31.1% 18 Yes
PSOE Jerónimo Saavedra Social democracy 23.1% 16 No [14]
FNC Juan Manuel García Ramos Canarian nationalism
3.0%
[a]		 4 No
AHI Belén Allende Insularism
Canarian nationalism
Centrism		 0.3% 1 No

Opinion polls

The tables below list opinion polling results in reverse chronological order, showing the most recent first and using the dates when the survey fieldwork was done, as opposed to the date of publication. Where the fieldwork dates are unknown, the date of publication is given instead. The highest percentage figure in each polling survey is displayed with its background shaded in the leading party's colour. If a tie ensues, this is applied to the figures with the highest percentages. The "Lead" column on the right shows the percentage-point difference between the parties with the highest percentages in a poll.

Voting intention estimates

The table below lists weighted voting intention estimates. Refusals are generally excluded from the party vote percentages, while question wording and the treatment of "don't know" responses and those not intending to vote may vary between polling organisations. When available, seat projections determined by the polling organisations are displayed below (or in place of) the percentages in a smaller font; 31 seats were required for an absolute majority in the Parliament of the Canary Islands.

Voting preferences

The table below lists raw, unweighted voting preferences.

Victory preferences

The table below lists opinion polling on the victory preferences for each party in the event of a regional election taking place.

Victory likelihood

The table below lists opinion polling on the perceived likelihood of victory for each party in the event of a regional election taking place.

Preferred President

The table below lists opinion polling on leader preferences to become president of the Canary Islands.

Results

Overall

← Summary of the 13 June 1999 Parliament of the Canary Islands election results →
Parties and alliances Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Total +/−
Canarian Coalition (CC) 306,65836.93+4.13 24+3
People's Party (PP) 225,31627.13−3.94 15−3
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) 199,50324.03+0.95 19+3
Canarian Nationalist Federation (FNC)1 39,9474.81+1.81 0−4
Canarian United Left (IUC) 22,7682.74−2.36 0±0
The Greens of the Canaries (Verdes) 12,1461.46New 0±0
Centrist Union–Democratic and Social Centre (UC–CDS) 4,4420.53−0.14 0±0
Independent Herrenian Group (AHI) 2,7730.33+0.07 2+1
Humanist Party (PH) 1,3460.16−0.04 0±0
Nationalist Maga Alternative (AMAGA) 8640.10New 0±0
Canarian Alternative–Independent Citizens of the Canaries (AC–CICA) 8060.10New 0±0
Pensionist Assembly of the Canaries (TPC) 6920.08New 0±0
Fuerteventura Popular Platform (PPF) 5330.06New 0±0
Blank ballots 12,5581.51+0.37
Total 830,352 60±0
Valid votes 830,35299.42−0.01
Invalid votes 4,8290.58+0.01
Votes cast / turnout 835,18160.80−3.40
Abstentions 538,46039.20+3.40
Registered voters 1,373,641
Sources[10][15][16]
Footnotes:
Popular vote
CC
 
 36.93%
PP
 
 27.13%
PSOE
 
 24.03%
FNC
 
 4.81%
IUC
 
 2.74%
LV
 
 1.46%
AHI
 
 0.33%
Others
 
 1.05%
Blank ballots
 
 1.51%
Seats
CC
 
 40.00%
PSOE
 
 31.67%
PP
 
 25.00%
AHI
 
 3.33%

Distribution by constituency

Constituency CC PP PSOE AHI
% S % S % S % S
El Hierro 22.8 − 23.1 1 51.3 2
Fuerteventura 34.7 3 21.1 2 26.7 2
Gran Canaria 31.8 5 40.3 7 18.4 3
La Gomera 31.2 1 10.9 − 50.3 3
La Palma 47.3 4 21.3 2 27.0 2
Lanzarote 28.5 4 13.3 1 24.2 3
Tenerife 43.0 7 16.2 3 28.6 5
Total 36.9 24 27.1 15 24.0 19 0.3 1
Sources[10][15][16]

Aftermath

Government formation

Investiture
Nomination of Román Rodríguez (ICAN)
Ballot → 14 July 1999
Required majority → 31 out of 60 check
Yes
  • • CC (23)
  • • PP (15)
  • • AHI (2)
40 / 60
No
18 / 60
Abstentions
0 / 60
Absentees
2 / 60
Sources[10]

2001 motion of no confidence

Motion of no confidence
Nomination of Juan Carlos Alemán (PSOE)
Ballot → 7 November 2001
Required majority → 31 out of 60 X mark
Yes
19 / 60
No
  • • CC (24)
  • • PP (15)
39 / 60
Abstentions
2 / 60
Absentees
0 / 60
Sources[10][17]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Results for PCN in the 1995 election.
  2. ↑ José Luis Álamo and Pedro Medina, former CC legislators.[10]
  3. 1 2 Within CC.
  4. 1 2 3 Does not include non-resident citizens.

References

Opinion poll sources
  1. ↑ "Canarias Coalición Canaria signe primera y sube". ABC (in Spanish). 7 June 1999.
  2. ↑ "Coalición Canaria sigue siendo la fuerza más votada". El País (in Spanish). 7 June 1999.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Preelectoral elecciones autonómicas y municipales, 1999. Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias (Estudio nº 2329. Mayo 1999)". CIS (in Spanish). 4 June 1999.
  4. ↑ "Estudio CIS nº 2329. Ficha técnica". CIS (in Spanish). 4 June 1999.
  5. ↑ "Bono e Ibarra repiten y el PSOE recuperará Asturias". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 5 June 1999.
  6. ↑ "Canarias: la incógnita de las alianzas". El Mundo (in Spanish). 24 May 1999.
  7. ↑ "ELECCIONES 13-J/BALANCE DE LAS ENCUESTAS". El Mundo (in Spanish). 6 June 1999.
Other
  1. ↑ Statute (1982), arts. 9, 13 & 17.
  2. ↑ LECC (1987), final prov. 1 (am. by LECC (1991), single art.).
  3. ↑ Statute (1982), art. 10; LECC (1987), art. 14 (am. by LECC (1991), single art.; suppl. by LOREG (1985), art. 42 & add. prov. 5).
  4. ↑ Statute (1982), art. 17.
  5. ↑ Decree 158/1999 (1999), art. 1.
  6. ↑ Statute (1982), arts. 9–10; LECC (1987), art. 2 (suppl. by LOREG (1985), arts. 2–3).
  7. ↑ Statute (1982), art. 9 & trans. prov. 1.
  8. ↑ Statute (1982), trans. prov. 1; Decree 158/1999 (1999), art. 2.
  9. ↑ LECC (1987), art. 19 (suppl. by LOREG (1985), arts. 46 & 48).
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lozano, Carles. "Elecciones al Parlamento de Canarias (desde 1983)". Historia Electoral.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 April 2026.
  11. ↑ "Los grupos parlamentarios. IV Legislatura" (in Spanish). Parliament of the Canary Islands. Retrieved 3 May 2026.
  12. ↑ LECC (1987), art. 16 (suppl. by LOREG (1985), art. 44).
  13. ↑ Cantero, Marta (21 December 1998). "La crisis de Coalición Canaria se salda con la elección de un nuevo líder". El País (in Spanish). Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Retrieved 2 May 2026.
  14. ↑ Díez, Anabel (28 June 1998). "Los candidatos oficialistas ganan las primarias". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 3 May 2026.
  15. 1 2 "Elecciones al Parlamento de Canarias. Elecciones 1999" (in Spanish). Parliament of the Canary Islands. Retrieved 26 April 2026.
  16. 1 2 "Resolución de 22 de septiembre de 1999, por la que se hacen públicos los resultados del escrutinio general en el conjunto de las circunscripciones electorales de la Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias" (PDF). Official Gazette of Canaries (in Spanish) (132): 13986–13993. 1 October 1999. Retrieved 27 April 2026.
  17. ↑ Pardellas, Juan Manuel (7 November 2001). "El socialista Alemán promete 'regenerar' Canarias en el debate de su moción de censura". El País (in Spanish). Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Retrieved 4 May 2026.

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